Edward
James Roye was a descendent of the Ibo tribe (Nigeria),
born in Newark, Ohio, USA, on February 3, 1815. He was
the first pure
black person to become President of Liberia. He arrived
as an immigrant in
1846, one year before Independence was proclaimed. Roye
became President
in 1870 but was deposed the following year in the first
coup détat in Africas
Oldest Republic. He died a mysterious death in Monrovia
in early 1872.

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